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Your donation will assist in the provision of legal, benefit and financial services to the 21,000 law enforcement officers within the State of Michigan who have been catastrophically injured on duty or to the families of officers killed in the line of duty.
The Thin Blue Line of Michigan is a non profit organization, which exists to provide assistance in the areas of financial, legal, benefit recovery, counseling, funeral stipends, college stipends, medical costs, medical equipment and other areas of hardship to the families of injured, personal illness, disabled or deceased members of the law enforcement community in addition to Firefighters, Dispatchers, Corrections, EMT, EMS and Administrative Clerks.
*Your membership makes you part of a large support network, assisting others and their families every day who are injured, disabled, suffering from personal or terminal illness or killed in the line of duty.
*You become eligible for the provision and assistance of services in the areas of financial assistance (up to $600 per month), legal review and assistance, counseling services, benefit review and recovery, funeral stipends, college stipends and coverage for other areas of hardship.
*Assistance with members’ personal illness and health care matters including illness and health care of a spouse and children.
*A $25,000 Personal Life Insurance policy is provided for both on duty and off duty death
*Analyses of the members work and personal benefit coverages will be provided upon request at no cost to protect both the member and their family against insufficient coverage for life events.
In the early morning hours of May 6, 2005 while investigating prostitution activities in the City of St. Paul, Minnesota with his partner, Sgt. Vick was fatally shot by one of two suspects upon leaving a neighborhood bar. Sgt Vick, age 41, left behind his spouse Connie, his son Clayton and daughter Amanda.
The death of Sgt Vick was the first line of duty death St. Paul Police Department had experienced since 1994. The City administration moved forward with what they thought was a routine death benefit claim with the Department of Justice, Public Safety Officer’s Benefits Office.
Following Sgt. Vick’s death the Thin Blue Line of Michigan, Executive Director, Laurie Reinacher had been invited to present the notable Line of Duty Death Benefits program to the statewide Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association. Ms. Reinacher was approached by several St. Paul Minnesota Police Association representatives about Sgt. Vick’s death and what was required to file benefits with the Department of Justice, Public Safety Officers Benefits Program.
